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Sunday, April 1, 2012

And we're off! After the amazingly wonderful and productive month I had last year - posting 26 times and discovering a world of new blogs and terrific new friends, of course I wouldn't miss the April 2012 A-Z Blogging Challenge!

My thanks to the A-Z Team Members for their work getting this thing going and spreading the word!

I am very proud of the 26 posts I put up during April 2011. So, to kick off this new month long run -

A is for A-Z 2011!

Yes, just like a pennypinching TV producer, I am running a "clip show." But I'm doing it for the season premiere instead of episode 20...and of course if you're new to LGOOH I hope there's some cool stuff to root around in back in those posts...

Maniacal Movie Poster Monday - another regular department here - always features three wonderful old movie posters for perusal. Here, all three titles begin with the same letter, and there are no flies on you if you guessed it's C!

Wherein I surprised everyone who knew me by not going with D is for Doc Savage or D is for Doctor Who - but instead, a wonderful British comedy/drama about a socially inept but brilliant surgeon who returns to his hometown as a general practitioner because he develops a phobia about the sight of blood. The American series House is a buzzardization of this show, and you should really see how cool the original is.

The next recurring department to make an appearance during A-Z 2011 was Bookworm's Book Club, in which the titular Batman villain takes the reader into the pages for a jaunt through literature. This one reviews a Classic Era Star Trek novel called Cloak.

My single longest post in the A-Z 2011 Challenge (and possibly the longest one in the entire 1300 participating blogs) is an indepth examination of the worst reviewed movie series in history. I dare you to check this one out, and comment on it. In fact, I double dare you!

After our showcase for 007's boss, we couldn't miss hitting James Bond's favorite gadget master for another retrospective, this one highlighting the great Desmond Llewelyn in clips from The Video Vault of Mora Tau.

The final recurring LGOOH department to rear its head during A-Z 2011 was Random Stew - each time a compendium of weird pop culture tidbits dredged up from the depths of my memory. This edition features (among other things) Roger Moore hawking computers and a Hawkman, er, hawking Hostess snack cakes. Plus, a Blue Meanie stops by!

The penultimate post puts the reader in charge - with the assignment to answer 5 pop culture questions in the comments section. Counting mine, there are currently five comments. As the only post still under construction, please do feel free to drop by this one and add your two cents!

The final post in A-Z 2011 is a Saturday Night at the Movies post with the 1982 teen comedy Zapped! as its subject. But as the final post, there are lots of extras like photos and video clips.

All right, there they are! A handy resource for what I hope are 26 fun posts taking the length and width of the world of wacky pop culture. Rest assured that starting with tomorrow's post the rest of this 2012 A-Z Blogging Challenge will be all new...for the most part, anyway...

Until then, "B" good, and you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!

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